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NIH Collaboratory launches new website for clinical trials Grand Rounds content

29 August 2017

On August 25, the NIH Collaboratory announced a new website, Rethinking Clinical Trials®: A Living Textbook of Pragmatic Clinical Trials. The revised and updated Living Textbook is the new home for all Grand Rounds content,...

372 UNC Health Care physicians named to 2017-2018 Best Doctors in America® list

22 August 2017

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – August 17, 2017 — Three-hundred seventy-two (372) physicians affiliated with UNC Health Care have been peer selected to the Best Doctors in America® List for 2017-2018, officials from UNC Hospitals...

NCATS furthers efforts to create a data ecosystem to explore disease connections

29 August 2017

Could more effective targets and treatments for common and rare diseases already exist, but have eluded researchers because disparate pieces of information were not connected? "Enabling comprehensive discovery of commonalities...

Research Startups Prominent in Latest UNC Startup Report

22 August 2017

Businesses emerging from UNC's research enterprise contribute heavily to the total number of business startups that have spun out of Carolina over the past 60 years. UNC's Office for Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Economic...

Fiscal Readiness Initiative helps reduce barriers hindering community-engaged research

28 August 2017

CHAPEL HILL, NC – The North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences (NC TraCS) Institute has developed a new resource, the Community Partner's Guide, to help community partners increase their fiscal readiness in...

CAGAT initiative engages with community partners in research

21 August 2017

Importance of community-engaged research As we work to improve population health outcomes, there is an increased emphasis on actively and meaningfully engaging with community partners in research. The collaborative partnerships...

Changes to CITI website login effective today

23 August 2017

Effective Wednesday, August 23, 2017, University faculty, staff, and students having a valid ONYEN and PASSWORD will be able to use it to sign onto the CITI website to complete Human Subjects Protection, Good Clinical Practice,...

Tamera Coyne-Beasley profiled in Lancet journal

16 August 2017

We are happy to announce that NCNC’s Pediatric and Adolescent Director Tamera Coyne-Beasley, MD MPH, is profiled in the first issue of The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health. This journal is the newest member of...

Blouin to succeed Dean as UNC-Chapel Hill provost

22 August 2017

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has named Robert “Bob” Blouin, longtime dean of the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, to serve as provost and executive vice chancellor of the University. Blouin will...

Framework for estimating the financial impact of patient engagement published

16 August 2017

CTTI recently published an approach for assessing the financial value of patient engagement that accounts for the business drivers of cost, risk, revenue, and time. Along with the financial model, CTTI recommendations were...